50 Books to Read Before You Die

Based on B&N A Metal Bookmark (50 books)

1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
2. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
3. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
4. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
5. The Bible by Christian Church
6. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
7. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
10. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
11. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
14. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
15. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
16. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
17. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
19. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
20. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
21. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
22. Ulysses by James Joyce
23. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
24. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
26. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
28. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
29. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
30. The Stranger by Albert Camus
31. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
32. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
33. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
34. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
35. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
36. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
37. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
38. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
39. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
40. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
41. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
42. Money by Martin Amis
43. Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
44. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
45. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
46. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
47. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
48. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
49. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
50. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon